ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e125515
Prototype Digital Twin: Recreation and Biodiversity Cultural Ecosystem Services
Simon Rolph‡, Chris Andrews§, Dylan Carbone‡, Julian Lopez Lopez Gordillo|, Tomas Martinovic¶, Nick Oostervink#, Dirk Pleiter¤, Kata Sara-aho«, John Watkins», Christoph Wohner˄, Jan Dick§‡ UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom§ UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Penicuik, United Kingdom| Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands¶ IT4Innovations, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic# Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, The Hague, Netherlands¤ KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden« Finnish IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland» UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster, United Kingdom˄ Environment Agency Austria, Vienna, Austria
Corresponding author: Simon Rolph ( simrol@ceh.ac.uk ) © Simon Rolph, Chris Andrews, Dylan Carbone, Julian Lopez Gordillo, Tomas Martinovic, Nick Oostervink, Dirk Pleiter, Kata Sara-aho, John Watkins, Christoph Wohner, Jan Dick. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Rolph S, Andrews C, Carbone D, Lopez Gordillo J, Martinovic T, Oostervink N, Pleiter D, Sara-aho K, Watkins J, Wohner C, Dick J (2024) Prototype Digital Twin: Recreation and Biodiversity Cultural Ecosystem Services. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e125515 |  |
Abstract
Digital twin approaches have the potential to revolutionise usage, planning and management of cultural ecosystem services i.e. the non-material benefits people obtain from ecosystems, including recreation, tourism, intellectual development, spiritual enrichment, reflection, and aesthetic experiences.
Here we outline our blueprint for a prototype digital twin (pDT) for cultural ecosystem services. The pDT consists of two modelling components; a recreation potential model to quantify the cultural ecosystem services of the physical landscape and species distribution models to quantify the biodiversity component.
It is envisaged that the digital twin will be used primarily by two user types 1. those who wanted to enjoy the area and potentially contribute to citizen science programs and 2. people who want to inform or make evidence-based management decisions (land managers, policy makers, researchers).
Here we outline our blueprint for a prototype digital twin (pDT) for cultural ecosystem services. The pDT consists of two modelling components; a recreation potential model to quantify the cultural ecosystem services of the physical landscape and species distribution models to quantify the biodiversity component.
It is envisaged that the digital twin will be used primarily by two user types 1. those who wanted to enjoy the area and potentially contribute to citizen science programs and 2. people who want to inform or make evidence-based management decisions (land managers, policy makers, researchers).
Keywords
recreation, tourism, trade-offs, biodiversity, models